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For me…here’s the deal…

This is just another example of why we doomed. And this isn’t even in any of the inner circles of the reasons why when it comes to news. I mean…big deal…there’s a feed of stories that local stations can buy from a source in order to flesh out their hour of “news.”

Really, the problem is that news is not motivated by illuminating the important stuff that is happening.

It is motivated by profit.

And it is cheaper to buy a stupid story from Big Source than it is to send somebody down to City Hall to ask questions. And more people want to see a bit about a puppy that survived a spill off a ledge than by a policy analysis.

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Well…yes.

I saw a little black button the other day that said “Fuck 2016”.

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“…Pointing to the massive amounts of propaganda spewed by government and institutions around the world, observers have called our era the age of Orwell. But the fact is that Orwell was a latecomer on the scene. As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called “historical engineering,” by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state policy. In this instance, the U.S. government wanted to silence opposition to the war. This represents a version of Orwell’s 1984, even before Orwell was writing.”
N.Chomsky
in: Wendy McElroy, ‎Carl Watner (1987) The Voluntaryist, Nr. 23-41 (1987), p. 120; Republished in: “Propaganda Review, 1987,” at zpub.com, accessed May 23, 2014.

Zooey wrote:

Why is there a laugh track?

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I wondered that too. Maybe its a comment on ‘canned’ tv stories. Ya know.

nittany ram wrote:

How is the ewe doing? Is she still infatuated with the Jews? 😉

The Bernie supporters that voted for Trump obviously had no clue what Bernie stood for. Apparently they just liked the fact that he was an outsider. When he lost, well any ol’ outsider would do…

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No, I am now the one infatuated with the Jews.

Probly true what you say about the bernie voters who voted Trump.

Thing is though, if zn’s figure below is right and twelve percent voted for Trump, that is a LOT of votes, i would think. Coulda made the difference in swing states, maybe.

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bnw wrote:

Poverty is subjective by nation so true comparisons do not exist. This list http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=69 has Taiwan listed at only 1.5% living in poverty.

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Sure its difficult to compare different nations and i dont put a lot of stock in comparisons, but my own leftist-approach would be to create policies that reduce inequality. Period. Not that complicated. Gross-Inequality ‘itself’ is wrong, to this particular ‘leftist’.

I wouldnt eliminate ‘all’ inequality, i mean i dont mind folks making a few million dollars and being comfortable if thats what they want, but what we have in America is unsustainable and pathological in my view. So, I’d change it. I’d take from the super-billionaires and redistribute it.

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NewMexicoRam wrote:

Has any country, anywhere, been able to show us what a “just” system is?
I don’t think we disagree that the underprivileged deserve attention, it’s just how do we get there that really helps them up?

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Well what would Jesus do? 🙂

Actually, i just dont think its that hard to design a ‘just’ system. Why it hasnt
been done is a separate question involving history and evolution and a gazillion things. But to me, its just a simple concept — gross inequality is wrong, and policies should be designed to decrease inequality. Period. Its just not that complicated.

So, i would redistribute the wealth. No more Billionaires. No more Homeless people.

But then i come at things as a leftist. Thats what i am. Thats what i believe in.

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Maybe the Guard from the Bengals?

No.11 on that list.

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The ‘dumbing-down’ meme is almost always used to describe the support for Trump. It ought to be used, imho, to describe support for Trump AND Hillary/Obama/Bill-Clinton, etc. I dont like the term ‘dumbing-down’ though. I’d use the word propagandized, instead.
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“There is an attack on the American mind,” she said. “A lot of what we’re seeing with Trump is the product of 40 years of dumbing down.”…

….The late Rev. Daniel Berrigan declared in a 2008 conversation with me that the American empire was in irrevocable decline. He said that in the face of this dissolution we must hold fast to the non-historical values of compassion, simplicity, love and justice. The rise and fall of civilizations, he noted, is part of the cyclical nature of history.

“The tragedy across the globe is that we are pulling down so many others,” he said. “We are not falling gracefully. Many, many people are paying with their lives for this.”

We must not become preoccupied with the short-term effects of resistance. Failure is inevitable for many of us. Tyrants have silenced voices of conscience in the past. They will do so again. We will endure by holding fast to our integrity, by building community and by spawning new institutions in the midst of the wreckage. We will sustain each other. Perhaps enough of us will endure to begin again.
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nittany ram wrote:

Holes? Ridiculous. That goes against every Borasian principle we know. If these holes you speak of were of any benefit, don’t you think Boras would use them too? Your lack of faith in Boras is disturbing. Don’t be so willing to follow the teachings of false prophets.

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I am telling you man, i saw….holes.

I saw them, i tell you. They were there.

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It just so critical that Kronky get some quality topnotch PERSONNEL advice.
I mean who should they keep? Who should they jettison? Who should they draft? Who should they sign in free-agency?

Do we trust Snead to be able to do the job?

If I’m billionaire Kronky, I’m hiring three separate, distinct, Personnel evaluaters, and I’m giving them a million dollars each and I’m telling them scout the Rams and tell me what to do.

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Oh, if nothing else read no.12 above.

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